Books
Miray Philips. Persecution Politics: Copts and the Geopolitics of Religious Difference and Rights.
2025 Winner of Mark Juergensmeyer Best Dissertation Award, Religion and International Relations Section, International Studies Association
2025 Honorable Mention for Lynne Reiner Publishers Best Dissertation Award, Human Rights Section, International Studies Association
Mina Ibrahim and Miray Philips, eds. Coptic Ways of Knowing: Archives, Fieldwork, and New Directions in Coptic Studies.
Journal Articles
Joachim Savelsberg, Jillian La Branche, & Miray Philips. 2025. “Prosecutorial-NGO Complex: New Legal Opportunity Structures and the Role of (I)NGOs in Universal Jurisdiction Trials on Syria.” Law & Society Review. 59(4): 716-748. [Open Access].
2026 Honorable Mention for Outstanding Article Award, Section on Conflict, Social Action, and Change, Society for the Study of Social Problems
Philips, Miray. 2025. “The Social Construction of Christian Persecution through Quantification in International Religious Freedom Advocacy." Sociology of Religion. Online First. [Open Access].
2023 Student Paper Award (Unpublished), Society for the Scientific Study of Religion
2023 Robert McNamara Best Student Paper Award, Association for the Sociology of Religion
2023 Best Student Paper Award, Religion Section, American Sociological Association
Philips, Miray and Joachim Savelsberg. 2024. “Social Fields, Journalism, and Collective Memory: Reporting on the Armenian Genocide in Legal, Political, and Commemorative Field Events.” Memory Studies. Memory Studies. 17(4):709:723. [Free PDF].
Philips, Miray. 2023. “‘We love martyrdom, but we also love life’: Coptic Cultural Trauma between Martyrdom and Rights.” American Journal of Cultural Sociology. 11(2):220-247. [Free PDF].
2022 Outstanding Graduate Research Paper, Sociology Department, University of Minnesota
2021 Best Student Paper Award, Religion Section, American Sociological Association
2021 Student Paper Award, Human Rights Section, American Sociological Association
Savelsberg, Joachim and Miray Philips. 2022. “Epistemic Power of Universal Jurisdiction: Spreading Knowledge about Mass Atrocity Crimes.” Minnesota Journal of International Law, 31(2). [Free PDF].
Book Chapters
Miray Philips. 2026. “Authoritarian Co-optation of Religious Minorities: The Case of Christians in Egypt and Syria.” In I.B. Tauris Handbook of Authoritarianism in the Arab World, edited by Dana El Kurd. Bloomsbury Publishing. [Open Access].
Miray Philips. 2023. “Christians in Egypt: Transformations in Representational Authority and Narratives of Belonging.” In In the Eye of the Storm: Middle Eastern Christians in the Twenty-First Century, edited by Mitri Raheb. Wipf and Stock Publishers. [Free EPUB].